Chris Stirewalt, political editor of NewsNation, is taking on the added duties as political editor of Nexstar Media Group’s The Hill.
Stirealt will provide editorial guidance and write a weekly column and a political note for the publication. He also will host events for The Hill, which Nexstar, parent company of NewsNation, purchased in 2021.
Stirewalt also serves as anchor of NewsNation’s public affairs program, The Hill Sunday. He’s also a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and he previously wrote a column for The Dispatch. He served as political editor of Fox News Channel. He was fired from that post in 2021 after he defended the Decision Desk’s call of Arizona for Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election, which triggered a backlash from the network’s Trump-supporting viewers.
Cherie Grzech, president of news & politics for The Hill and NewsNation, said that Stirewalt’s “expansive knowledge of Washington, and signature wit and delivery will be an enormous asset to the newsroom.”
Stirewalt said, “I started work as a political columnist covering the 2004 presidential election. A great deal is different in both politics and the news business now. What hasn’t changed is that a great many Americans still are looking for straightforward, fair-minded analysis but too often find partisanship masquerading as punditry.”
